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About Billy Koehler

Billy Koehler is the founder of ThirdDownDraw.com and a contributing writer at DixielandSports.com. He has been covering college football since 2006. You can follow him on twitter @billykoehler.

Stand Up Defensive Fronts

Writing about Charlie Strong, Kevin Flaherty discusses the Psycho front Strong used at Louisville.  The Psycho front is Strong’s name for the package he uses where the defensive linemen stand up and walk around, jumping from place to place before … Continue reading

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What is success, at Tennessee?

Success is a relative term.  Merely going to a bowl game is a success for one team and a given for another.  Some schools expect to compete for conference and national championships; others just hope.  What does that success look … Continue reading

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What is success, at Florida?

Success is a relative term.  Merely going to a bowl game is a success for one team and a given for another.  Some schools expect to compete for conference and national championships; others just hope.  What does that success look … Continue reading

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What is success, at Kentucky?

Success is a relative term.  Merely going to a bowl game is a success for one team and a given for another.  Some schools expect to compete for conference and national championships; others just hope.  What does that success look … Continue reading

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What is Success, at South Carolina?

Success is a relative term.  Merely going to a bowl game is a success for one team and a given for another.  Some schools expect to compete for conference and national championships; others just hope.  What does that success look … Continue reading

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South Carolina’s Spring Practice

Will Muschamp gave a press conference on Monday, and we can infer what’s going on in Columbia behind the scenes.  The whole article is up at Dixieland Sports. There have been plenty of years where South Carolina had some good … Continue reading

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Lessons from March Madness

College football is new to this selection committee and playoff thing.  It can learn from the mistakes and shortcomings of basketball’s March Madness. Tournament results do not rectify selection mistakes.  The College Football Playoff Committee should have already learned this … Continue reading

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5th Down means one thing

On Oct. 6, 1990, a football game was stolen, and the culprit was … the fates. It was a day when math teachers lost count and sure runners slipped and fell. It was a day when telephones went unanswered and … Continue reading

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ACC Network looks Dead on Arrival

After the Big Ten, SEC and Pac12 conferences put together television networks other major conferences, the ACC in particular, wondered when they would get nearly unlimited coverage of their network.  Fans wanted to see more of their teams and wanted the … Continue reading

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When in doubt, it is a foul

A bad rule gets worse. On Tuesday the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel decided that the targeting penalty had been such a huge success that the only thing they needed was more targeting penalties. The Panel voted to allow replay … Continue reading

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